June Extreme Weather Batters US and Europe With Unusual Storms, Heat, and Floods

In June, extreme weather hit the US and Europe hard, with intense heatwaves, violent storms, flooding, and wildfires. These events caused significant damage, power outages, and emergency evacuations. Read More

Letter: Wildfires, floods and extreme weather -- when will we stop killing planet?

The firestorms ravaging Southern California are the latest example of extreme weather growing more furious and more unpredictable, writes Ron Sadler News Today's news ... Read More

The Myth of the ‘100-Year Storm’—Why Devastating Floods Are Happening More Often - MSN

The idea of a “100-year storm” can be misleading. With climate change, the frequency and intensity of storms are increasing. This means that what was once considered a rare event is becoming ... Read More

Eight catastrophic floods in 11 days: What’s behind intense rainfall around the world? - NBC News

The catastrophic flooding in Libya that is feared to have left as many as 10,000 people dead is just the latest in a string of intense rain events to hammer various parts of the globe over the ... Read More

Floods Wreak Havoc Across Four Continents - The New York Times

Extreme weather is exceptionally costly for African governments. On average, African nations are losing 5 percent of their economies because of floods, droughts and heat, according to the World ... Read More

Is this extreme weather the ‘new normal?’ There’s no such thing, some scientists say | CNN - CNN International

Southern Europe is experiencing one of its most extreme heat waves on record, with wildfires raging in Greece, Spain and Switzerland. And in Asia, temperatures have pushed above 50 degrees Celsius ... Read More

The year’s most extreme weather shows what a warming planet is capable of, and what’s to come - CNN

In the hottest year on record, the fingerprints of a changing climate in a warming world were all over dozens of extreme weather events. There wouldn’t be weather without heat; heat is energy ... Read More

Record-breaking heat, flooding, wildfires and monsoons are slamming the world. Experts say it's only begun. - CBS News

Phoenix has seen temperatures at 110 degrees or above every single day this month as Italy prepares for "the most intense [heat wave] of all time" – and it's just the start of new " ... Read More

Extreme weather events in the last year

The number of global extreme weather events has seen a "staggering rise" in the past 30 years, said the United Nations, and experts warn climate change is "supercharging” the problem, said The ... Read More

How 2022's best extreme weather segments point the way forward for national TV news' extreme weather coverage - Media Matters for America

Much of 2022’s extreme weather coverage from national TV news outlets failed to connect the consequences of climate-driven events such as wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves, and megadroughts to ... Read More

Letter: Wildfires, extreme weather -- are we killing our planet?

The firestorms ravaging Southern California are the latest example of extreme weather growing more furious and more unpredictable, writes Ron Sadler News Intel News Sports Business Life & Events ... Read More

Is this extreme weather the ‘new normal?’ There’s no such thing, some scientists say - CNN

In a statement on Tuesday, Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization, called this relentless cascade of extreme weather “the new normal.” But some scientists ... Read More